Gregg Greggski has made the most of his “compact” landscape in Heritage Landing at World Golf Village where he has resided the past eight years with his wife, Kathy, who he has been married to for 32 years. Gregg says his property is “40 feet wide and maybe 90 feet deep,” and it is pretty much covered in plants, shrubs, trees and vegetables. He has “isolated grassy areas,” one in which is shaped like a large heart. Gregg, who has St. Augustine Grass, keeps it four inches in height and believes to have a successful lawn “the key is the height of the cut.”

Gregg’s garden was recently declared winner of the Organic Garden category in the Vegetable Gardening Contest staged by the St. Johns County Extension Service. Last year he placed third in the Small Garden category.

He uses fertilizer sparingly, only a little milorganite and 10-10-10 in his front landscape. “It took six or seven years to build the soil,” in the back landscape, he says. It is all organic with leaf mulch, pine needles and Black Kow composted cow manure utilized.

Gregg, who guesses he spends about 20 hours a week gardening, has 95 varieties of plants and vegetables growing in his landscape this year.